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They've actually got a trick for this. > "In Japan, 98% of adoptions are actually adult men, aged between 20-30 years old — not children." > "In Japan, there
by hotpotamus 4y ago
They've actually got a trick for this.
> "In Japan, 98% of adoptions are actually adult men, aged between 20-30 years old — not children."
> "In Japan, there is a several-hundred-year-old tradition in which businesses adopt their executives so companies or institutions are "family-run" groups. In other words, bosses adopt their employees."
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/japanese-adoption-rates-majority-adult-men-a7524301.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/japanese-adoption-r...
- danielscrubs 4y agoTake these things with a grain of salt. I would guess the journalist purposely hid the absolute numbers to make the article more interesting. The incentives for clicks are just too great.
- rippercushions 4y agoThe absolute number is around 80,000 per year, which is considerable, albeit not huge compared to a population of over 100M. (For comparison, the US has about 140,000 with a 3x larger population.) The bit that is misleading is that adopting or even fostering children not related to you is vanishingly rare in Japan, nearly all orphans end up in orphanages instead.
- eloisant 4y agoI think it used to be much more common in feodal Japan, not just for business owners but also in noble or samurai families to continue the "house".
- bdowling 4y ago> Nowadays, legal adoption of this kind is paired up with an arranged marriage — known as "omiai" — of a daughter, meaning the adopted son becomes son and son-in-law at the same time because he changes his name to the wife's family name ("mukoyoshi"). So, daughter marries son-in-law, who is "adopted" into the family and carries on the family name.